ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,698, issued on April 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Terrestrial and non-terrestrial communication systems, apparatuses, and methods" was invented by Jianglei Ma (Kanata, Canada), Ming Jia (Kanata, Canada), Peiying Zhu (Kanata, Canada) and Wen Tong (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, in part, to non-terrestrial communication systems, and in some embodiments to the integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial communication systems. Non-terrestrial communication systems can provide a more flexible communication system with extended wireless coverage ran...